Ball Elizabeth, Rivas Carol, Khan Rehan
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Women's Health Research Unit, Yvonne Carter Building, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
AJOG Glob Rep. 2022 Feb;2(1):100043. doi: 10.1016/j.xagr.2021.100043. Epub 2021 Dec 10.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic virtual clinics in gynecology were not commonplace in the United Kingdom or most other countries. Owing to the need to reconfigure health provision to caring for COVID-19 patients, reducing footfall in hospitals and restricted movement, telemedicine was rapidly introduced at scale in hospitals thought the United Kingdom. This happened without much consultation with service users and healthcare professionals. It is anticipated that after the pandemic, telemedicine will remain to some extent. The authors report how their hospital how their place of work, a large London teaching hospital, adopted virtual phone consultations in gynecology, along with a countrywide survey of 200 service users and healthcare professionals. Now it is important carry out a robust evaluation of outcomes (both clinician and patient experience) and also to take care that service users from disadvantaged backgrounds do not lose out.
在新冠疫情之前，虚拟妇科诊所在英国或其他大多数国家并不常见。由于需要重新调整医疗服务以照顾新冠患者、减少医院人流量以及限制人员流动，远程医疗在英国各地的医院迅速大规模引入。这一过程在很大程度上没有与服务使用者和医疗专业人员进行太多协商。预计疫情过后，远程医疗仍将在一定程度上保留。作者报告了他们工作的医院，一家位于伦敦的大型教学医院，是如何在妇科采用虚拟电话咨询的，以及对200名服务使用者和医疗专业人员进行的全国性调查。现在，对结果（临床医生和患者体验）进行有力评估很重要，同时也要注意确保来自弱势背景的服务使用者不会受到损失。
